The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-11
GO AND TELL JESUS.
DR.. TALMAeE's ADVICE TO ALL WHO
ARE IN TROUBLE.

At No Period of a Mans Life Is He
Free From Temptation-An Who Live
Cody in Christ Must Suffer Persecu-
tIon.
BROOKLYN, May Sat the Tabernacle
this morning the Rev T. De Witt Talmage,
Of his congregation, which this year will
be TO Marthais Vineyard, Mass. 1t will
begin July and end July T. DIR. Talmage
viii preach at Martha's Vineyard on July 3,
and deliver an Grafton on the Fourth The
congregational singing at the Tabernacle is led
by cornet and organ. A hoy choir chants
twice during the service. The hymn sung by
the congregation this morning begins:
Sun Of my soul, thou Saviour dear.
II is not night IL Thou be near.
DIR. Talmage's text was: "And his dis
ciples went and told Jesus"-Matthew xiv, II
He said:
An outrageous assassination had Just taken
place. To appease a revengeful woman,
King Herod ordered the death OF that noble,
self sacrificing Christian John the Baptist
The group Of the disciples were thrown into
grief and dismay They felt themselves ut
terly defenseless There was no authority TO
which they could appeal, and yet grief must
always find expression. II there be no hu-
man ear 10 hear it, then the agonized soul
will cry IL aloud TO the winds and the woods
and the waters But there was an ear that
was willing TO listen. There is tender
pathos, and at the same time most admira-
BILE picture, in the words of my text: They
went and told Jesus" He could understand
all their grief, and be Immediately soothed it.
Our burdens are not more than half so heavy
10 carry if another is thrust under the other
end Of them. Here we find Christ, his brow
Swallowed with grief, standing amid the
group of disciples, who, with tears and vio-
lent gesticulations and wringing Of hands and
cutlery Of bereavement, are expressing their
woe. Raphael, with his skillful brush put
ting upon the wall of palace some scene Of
sacred story, gave not so skillful a stroke as
when the plain hand of the evangelist writes:
"I'hey went and told Jesus"
The old Goths and Vaudals once came down
upon Italy from the north of Europe, and
they upset the gardens, and they broke down
the affairs and swept away everything that
was good and beautiful So there is ever
and anon in the history of all the sons and
daughters OF our race an incursion Of rough
handed troubles that came to plumber and
rensack and put to the torch all that men
highly priced. There is no cave so deeply
cleft into the mountains as TO allow us shelter
and the foot of the fieetest courser cannot
bear us beyond the quick pursuit. The ar
rows they put TO the string fly with unerring
dart, until we fall pierced and stunned.
feel that bring to you most appropriate
message Imean to bind up all your griefs
into a bundle and set them on fire with a
spark from Gods altar The same prescrip-
ton that cured the sorrow of the disciples
will cure all your heartaches. l have read
that when Godfrey and his army marched out
TO capture Jerusalem, as they came over the
hills, at the first flash of the pinnacles of that
beautiful city, the army that had marched in
silence lifted q shout that made the earth
tremble. Oh, you soldiers of Jesus Christ,
marching on toward heaven, / would that
to-day, by some CLEAN from the palace Of
Gods mercysand Gods strength you might
be lifted into great rejoicing, and that before
this service is ended you might raise one glad
hosanna to the Lordl
In the first place, commend the behavior
of these disciples to all those in this audience
who are sinful and unpardoned. There
comes a time in almost every mans history
when he feels from some source that he has
an erring nature. The thought may not
have such heft as to fell him. 1t may be only
like the fash in an evening cloud just after a
very hot summer day. One man to get rid
OF that impression will go to prayer; another
will stimulate himself by ardent spirits, and
another man will dive deeper in secularities
But sometimes man cannot get rid of these
impressions The fact is, when n man finds
out that his eternity is poised upon perfect
uncertainty, and that the next moment his
foot may slip he must do something violent
IN ia wi ba ar mr.
else fly for refuge.
If there are any here who have resolved
that they would rather die of this awful can
Ger OF sin than TO have the heavenly surgeon
cut it out, let me say, my dear brother, you
nningle for yourself bitter cup. You fly in
the face OF your everlasting interests You
crouch under e yoke and you bite the dust,
when, this moment, you might rise up a
crowned conqueror. Driven and perplexed
ard harassed as you have been by sin, go and
tell Jesus. To relax the grip Of death from
your soul and plant your unshackled feet
upon the golden throne Christ let the tor
lures Of the bloody Mount transfx him.
With the beam of his own cross he will break
down the door of your dungeon. From the
thorns of his own crown he will pick enough
gems to make your brow blaze with eternal
victory. In every tear on his wet cheek, in
every cash Of his side, in every long, blacken-
ing mark of laceration from shoulder to
shoulder, in the grave SCATTERING, heaven
storming death groan, hear him say: Him
that cometh unto me, will in no wise cast
out"
"Oh," but you say, "instead of curing my
wound YOU want to make another wound
namely, that of conviction" Have you never
known a surgeon to come and find chronic
disease, and then with sharp caustic burn it
all outl So the grace of God comes to the old
sore Of sin. 1t has long been ranking there,
but by divine grace it is burned out through
these fires of conviction, "the flesh coming
again as the flesh of little child;n where
sin abounded, grace much more aboundeth."
With the 10, 600 unpardoned sins of your life
go and tell Jesus. You will never get rid of
your sins I'm any other way; and remember
that the broad invitation which | extend to
you viii not always be extended.
King Alfred, before modern timepieces
were invented, used to divide the day into
three parts-eight hours each-and then had
three wax candles. BY the time the first
candle had burned to the socket eight hours
had gone, and when the second candle had
burned to the socket another eight hours had
gone, and when all the three candles were
gone out then the day had passed. Oh, that
some of us, instead of calculating our days
and nights and years by any earthly time
piece, might calculate them by the number
Of opportunities and mercies which are burn
ing down and burning out, never to be re-
lighted, lest at last we be amid the foolish
virgins who cried: sour lamps have gone
outp
Again / commend the behavior of the dis
ciples to all who are tempted. l have heard
men in mid life say they had never been led
into temptation. If you have not felt tempta-
ton it is because you have not tried TO do
right. A man hoppled and handcutfed. as
long as he lies quietly, does not test the power
of the chain; but when he rises up and
with determination resolves to snap the
handcuff or break the hopple. then he finds
the power of the iron. And there are men
who have been for ten and twenty and thirty
years bound hand and foot by evil habits
who have never felt the power of the chain
because they have never tried to break it 1t
is very easy to go on down with the stream
and with the wind, lying on your oars; but
just turn around and try to go against the
wind and the tide and you will find it differ
ent matter. As long as we go down the cur
rent of our evil habit we seem TO get along
quite smoothly, but if after while we turn
around and head the other way, toward
Christ and pardon and heaven, oh, then how
we have to lay to the oarsi You all have
your temptation You have one kind, you
another, you another. not one person escaping.
IL is all folly for you to say to some one:
II could not be tempted as you are.n The
lion thinks 1t is so strange that the fish should
be caught with hook. The fish thinks it is
20 strange that the lion should be caught
with trap. You see some man with a cold.
phlegmatic temperament. and you say: II
suppose that man has not any temptation
Yes, rs much as you have In his phlegmatic
nature he has q temptation 10 Incidence and
consciousness and over eating and drinking;
temptation TO ignore the great work of life;
atemptation to lay down an obstacle In the
way Of all good enterprises The tempera-
ment decides the styles Of temptation; but
sanguine or Emphatic, you win have temp